Netsuite vs SAP Business One

The Clear Leader for Small and Midsized Enterprises

SAP Business One has many advantages over NetSuite—advantages that address the critical ERP needs of small and midsized enterprises (SMEs).

With over 60,000 customers and one million users, SAP Business One is the preferred ERP solution for SMEs. Businesses can offer a better customer experience and run more efficiently because SAP Business One provides complete and fully integrated functionality around financials, operations, CRM, inventory, and payroll.

NetSuite can't. It’s no wonder SAP is #1 in global ERP market share.

The SAP Difference
SAP HANA
Deployment Options
Industry Solutions
Customizations
Key Features
SAP Services

With its in-memory computing power and high levels of real-time data accessibility, SAP Business One powered by SAP HANA eliminates the layers of complexity common in cloud-based ERP solutions like NetSuite.

NetSuite relies on third-party applications to cobble together a feature set that supports business processes. That’s a problem because every web application added to NetSuite increases information requests to and from the system.

Add NetSuite’s nagging workflow and custom scripts issues, and your employees’ work slows too often when accessing records or running a report. In the end, NetSuite drains productivity and demotivates your staff.

The global food and beverage market is constantly changing and relies on a complex supply chain. Add new customer demands and traceability, quality management, and inventory control regulations, and your business needs an array of data in real-time.

Food and beverage companies use SAP Business One to:

Comply with strict industry standards and GMP guidelines, including FDA, EMA, BRC, IFRA, and GHS
Manage shelf life and expiry dates by tracking byproducts, co-products, yield, wastage, shelf life, expiry date, FIFO, and FEFO
Track materials backward and forward from vendor to customer
Calculate costs with flexible, multilevel margin calculations per article, production order, and batch
Eliminate waste and minimize delays with advanced quality controls on raw materials and components
Improve planning, communication, and responsiveness with advanced scheduling and production controls
Make faster, more informed decisions with real-time reporting, dashboards, and alerts
Easily integrate with subsystems such as SCADA and LIMS

Effective inventory controls, warehouse management, and recall features are built into SAP Business One, not bolted on as an afterthought.

Huy Fong Foods

California-based Huy Fong Foods simplified end-to-end supply chain operations by consolidating five systems into just one: SAP Business One. The intuitive nature of the software enabled the company to implement its ERP using only non-technical staff.

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SAP Business One manages everything from inventory control to production and customer relationship management for life sciences companies. The system automates processes and brings sales transactions, supply chain logistics, warehouse management, and accounting capabilities on one platform. You also gain access to real-time data and a big-picture view of operations.

Meeting FDA requirements

Regulators want to know your business has the proper controls, particularly for CAPA collection, analysis, resolution, reporting, and trending. With SAP Business One, your company can produce documents and evidence to prove you’re following standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Quality control

Your company must provide quality management for class I, II, III, and IV medical devices, including quality standards compliance (e.g., TS14485 and ISO 9001). SAP Business One configures workflows and provides quality check procedures; after measurements are defined, the system sets up the acceptable quality level at each production checkpoint to ensure components don’t proceed until they meet that checkpoint’s criteria.

Traceability and product recalls

SAP Business One includes serial number traceability to ensure products are tracked accurately through every stage. The system manages UDIs, guarantees traceability, and enables your company to manage recalls properly and efficiently.

Avinger

Medical device company Avinger implemented SAP Business One to transform its business and prepare for growth. Today, Avinger manages everything better with finance, supply chain, logistics, and warehouse management on one platform.

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SAP Business One is an all-in-one solution that provides accurate, real-time information for end-to-end operations management. The platform integrates features for discrete, process, and project manufacturing, including:

Production
Profitability measures
EDI
Supply chain management
Shipping logistics
Advanced manufacturing capabilities

Because SAP Business One maintains a full, 360-degree view of your operations, it delivers the broadest set of features and functions on the market, including:

Opportunity management
Advanced inventory management
Project-based purchasing
Comprehensive project management
Partner updates and news
Real-time, cross-functional reporting
Time and materials management with a built-in MRP system
Process-oriented bills of materials (BOMs)
Centralized sales order entry
Change order management
Customized quality controls
Production management, including planning and scheduling

SAP Business One simplifies BOM management. The platform’s advanced real-time reporting lets you control user rights and offer BOM reporting views with only the information employees need to do their jobs. Because SAP Business One stores all its information in a single database, all product data is captured in a single record. This centralizes the information from your engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing BOMs along with data for packaging, quality inspection, and identification labels. This ensures you produce and ship products exactly as specified.

Advance Adapters

Advance Adapters's highly complex products require detailed information-sharing with customers and prospects. The manufacturer switched to SAP Business One and more than doubled its revenue by streamlining customer views and feedback on project-specific data.

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The supply chain network is becoming more complex. Customers want more choices, faster fulfillment, and lower prices. To meet expectations, SAP Business One gives you a single, transparent view of all your warehouse and distribution operations. This lets you deliver goods on time, boosts customer satisfaction, and optimizes inventory.

Greater inventory and supply chain management

SAP Business One provides real-time information about inbound and outbound shipments and inventory data. Whether you stock and ship hard or soft goods, food, or other items with complex serialization and lot tracking, or your services are a mix of drop ship, 3PL, and stock and ship, SAP Business One smooths operations and improves operating margin. With integrated solutions for EDI, shipping logistics, and inventory management, Vision33 can automate your warehouse so everything happens automatically based on a single transaction.

EDI enables wholesale distributors to electronically exchange order information with a supply chain partner without manual data entry and re-entry, resulting in fewer errors and faster order completion. SAP Business One integrates your backend data (e.g., sales, invoicing, production, scheduling, and shipping) via EDI, eliminating manual processes associated with sharing data with business partners.

Innovative cloud EDI

Cloud EDI connects SAP Business One to a network of over 55,000 retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, and 3PLs. The integrated EDI solution is available on both Microsoft SQL Server and SAP HANA and enables customer- and supplier-facing EDI in a single environment.

With cloud EDI for SAP Business One, you can:

Use standardized document formats to seamlessly interact with any partner
Increase cash flow by reducing invoicing and payment cycles
Send and receive real-time catalog, inventory, order, and shipping information
Save time by no longer building individual point-to-point connections with each trading partner

Superior Auto Extras

Superior Auto Extras, a full-service distributor, manages a range of products and product variants in SAP Business One and implemented advanced inventory management so their 60 employees, 75 outside sales reps, and two distribution centers are always synchronized.

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Growing SMEs perform better when using an ERP system that delivers company- and industry-specific features.

Vision33 has deep expertise in planning and implementing SAP Business One to enable industry-specific processes that work how your business works.

No matter which industry you compete in, powerful SAP Business One customizations and add-ons optimize the platform's value.

Vision33's SAP-certified consultants will deploy SAP Business One to maximize your company’s unique differentiators, and SAP Business One’s broad range of capabilities will speed your operations and expand your market reach.

The Saltbox Platform is a cloud-native, low-code integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution that empowers SMEs to integrate disconnected business systems like ERP, CRM, and eCommerce.

By eliminating data silos and automating manual processes, Saltbox unlocks new levels of operational efficiency and cost savings.

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Vision33 offers two value-add web portals for SAP Business One:

Customer Portal
Employee Portal

Each portal makes SAP Business One a powerful enabler for speeding daily work and reducing mundane support tasks.

Customer Portal gives customers a secure, flexible, personalized self-service gateway to retrieve and interact with information in a standard web browser. It's a convenient, self-service way for your customers to make online payments, manage orders, and more.

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The Employee Portal puts employees in the driver’s seat with access to the information they want and need at any time. A real-time, web portal that integrates with SAP Business One and gives them tools to get the work done.

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SAP Business One's wealth of core capabilities will drive your business efficiency and position your company for profitable growth. The platform’s five key features deliver unsurpassed operational benefits, including:

End-to-end business automation
Accurate real-time reporting and analytics
Complete operational visibility and control
Access to critical data anytime, anywhere
Rapid time to value

SAP Business One continually evolves as market dynamics change—you can visit our SAP Business One page to learn what’s new.

Vision33 is the only SAP Business One partner that holds the AWS SAP Competency, and our Global Services group routinely helps SMEs expand into new geographies, making us the ideal implementation partner for growing businesses. Post-implementation, Vision33 continues to deliver value through our industry-leading support program, TOTAL Care, and ongoing ideation and implementation services from our world-class consulting team. They help customers continuously innovate using the best industry-specific add-ons and integrations to support new business initiatives and evolving market demands.

ERP Comparisons

SAP Business One vs. NetSuite

The Clear Leader for Small and Midsized Enterprises

The SAP Difference

SAP HANA

Deployment Options

Industry Solutions

Customizations

Key Features

SAP Services

The SAP Difference

Maintain control

Maximize data performance

Optimize the deployment

SAP HANA

“SAP Business One has streamlined our processes and helped us become one of the fastest shippers in the industry. Whereas the competition can take several weeks to deliver an order, VIETRI can do it within 2 to 3 business days, on average.”

Jody Davis, Customer Service and IT manager at VIETRI

Deployment Options

SAP Business One offers more deployment options than NetSuite

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Cloud information kit

Industry Solutions

Huy Fong Foods

Meeting FDA requirements

Quality control

Traceability and product recalls

Avinger

Advance Adapters

Greater inventory and supply chain management

Innovative cloud EDI

Superior Auto Extras

Customizations

“With SAP Business One, an order is made through our website, and we have achieved order turnaround in about fourteen minutes – that’s real value for our customer.”- Jody Davis, Customer Service and IT manager at VIETRI

Juice Beauty Expands as Business Complexity Grows

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The Fruit Company Optimizes Product Traceability

Key Features

Financial management

Sales and customer management

Inventory and production functionality

Reporting & real-time analysis

SAP Services

How to identify the right ERP partner

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Comprehensive services

“With SAP Business One, an order is made through our website, and we have achieved order turnaround in about fourteen minutes – that’s real value for our customer.”
- Jody Davis, Customer Service and IT manager at VIETRI